Windrose Farm Book List
August 28th 2010
Books for those who wish to welcome the knowledge of others & engage in the future of man, here and everywhere!
Note: These titles are not in any particular order.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Anything! by Wendell Berry
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx
People with Dirty Hands by Robin Chotzinoff
Hope’s Edge by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge *Yes, a ‘science fiction’ novel is very interesting in ‘one’ man’s thoughts on how and where we ‘might’ go.
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore *Book or film
Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
Real Food by Nina Planck
The Last Farmer: An American Memoir by Howard Kohn
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World by Justin Pollard and Howard Reid
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukoka
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masumoto
Food Matters by Mark Bittman
Taming the Tiger Within by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The End of Materialism by Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
